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POPLAR SHOPPER
DECEMBER 31, 1987
POST OFFICE BOX 668 POPLAR, MONTANA 59255 PHONE: 768-3433 $8.00 PER YFAR^^^^' ��.....iiniHHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHii......iiiiiiiiiHHHinii.....iiHiiiiiniiiHiiiiiiii.....inni.....nn...:.......�.......ujimmi
BULK RATE
U.b. POSTAGE PERMIT #4
Home Decoration Winners
F/rsf - Darrell Baker
Second - Strauser Residence Third - Robert Summers
Decorations Removed Before Picture Taking Time
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Keith Erickson Dog House
MONTANA'S POPULATION TREND
%4^LE Ir
Years of monitoring Mt. population has led Univ. of Mt. history Professor Harry Fritz to a startling conclusion. He says that despite the decline in its basic industries, western Montana continues to draw an increasing number � of residents. I don't think there's a relationship between a growing economy and a growing population in this state, says Fritz, a Democratic state representative from Missoula. "People are moving to Montana not for the traditional economic reasons." Professor Tom Power, chairman of UM's economics department, agrees with Fritz's assess ment. "I think that's absolutely true," he says, "if one looks at the collapse of Montana's traditional economic base, where we've lost tens of thousands of jobs,...we should have lost 50,000 to 100,000 people. And we didn't." The latest census Bureau figures show that statewide, Montana's population decreased by 7,000 between 1984 and 198* -from 826,000 to 819,000. "It's a little too early to interpret this drop of 7,000," Fritz says. "Rut my guess is it's kind of a in state's "transfer" (non-Jahor) income in the early 1980s. That increase was detected by Professor Power. Transfer income includes social security payments and other retirement benefits, as well as profits from bonds and other investments. Power found that in 1986, transfer funds accounted for $3 out of every $8 in personal income in Mt.
logging." "We've got a good educational system, which I think with minimum effort could attract out-of-state students into Montana," he says. "There are things you con get here that you can't find elsewhere."
Just as census figures don't clarify who's mov ing to Montana, neither do they show why people come here. Fritz suggests scenic beauty, a low crime rate, and educational and recreational opportunities. Another likely reason is the residential privacy Montana's wide-open spaces afford. He dismisses the state's low individual taxes as a motive. Fritz says that to promote economic growth in the Treasure State, Montanons must analyze the reasons people have moved here during the past 15 years. Counting on traditional resource-based industries to rebo-
und may not be enough, he says. He disagrees with people who think that Montana's traditional industries would recover if they were less burdened by taxes, bureaucratic regulations and environmental restrictions. "Copper mines have closed all over the American West," Fritz says. "Butte is jiot some singular, unique, Montana example of something we can turn a-around. ! think you need a realization on the part of the state officials that they're going to have to try something else besides rejuvenating mining and logging."
OIL REFUNDS
$80 MILLION AVAILABLE FOR OIL OVERCHARGE REFUNDS
Farmers, businessmen, government officials, school officials and other individuals who may have used large quantities of refined petroleum products may be sent a refund by the Federal Government if they sumbit a refund application by June 30, 1988.
U.S. consumers were overcharged for refined petroleum products, including propane, gasoline, diesel fuel and asphalt products from 1973 to 1981. A court settlement with the oil companies that overcharged consumers provided $80 million dollars to the U.S. Department of Energy to refund those consumers that were directly impacted by these oil overcharges. It is probably not worth applying for a refund if you're an average home owner. Only petroleum product use-age is eligible for the refund-natural gas and electricity don't apply. The refund rate is $8.00 per 10,000 gallons of petroleum products consumer during the 7.5 year period from 1973-1981. The Federal Government will not process a check for less than $15 which means the business or individual must have used almost 20,000 gallons of fuel during the seven year period to get a $15 refund.
It is'best if you use records to develop the information required for the refund application form, however, much of the information that farmers would need to complete the form has been lost or destroyed. If this is the case farmers can use a simplified formula to calculate the gallons of petroleum used during the 7.5 year period. The formula is: 23.8 gallons of fuel per acre times the total number of acres you farm times 7.5 years. Cropland, hayland and rangeland qualify, however, if rangeland and hayland are included in the total number of acres your farm, you may want to adjust the 23.8 gallons per acre to a lower figure. The 23.8 gallons peracre figure was developed from a study made in Iowa. Farmers also do not want to forget the propane or heating oil they used to heat their homes. Schools, hospitals, city and county government may be prime beneficiaries of the refund, if heating was done with a petroleum product or a large fleet of trucks, bus, etc. were operated or asphalt paving done during the time period, it rroy pay to make an application for the refund. A one page application form is available at your nearest MSU Extension Service Office or at the Energy Information Centers located in the County Building at Culbertson and the Library at Wolf Point. All applications must be submitted to the U.S. Department of Energy by June 30, 1988. The applications were originally due on December 31, 1987, however, Mike Vogel, MSU Housing and Home Energy Specialist, said that the time alotted by the Energy Department for consumers to file .efund applications was too short and the Department of Energy has extended the time for applications. "The refunds will still be issued on a first come, first serve basis, so when the money runs out, later applications will not be honored, " said Vogel. Vogel's advice is, "Don't wait until the week before the deadline to get your refund application in. You may not get your refund."
Donovan Bridges Tractor
"JUDGES DECISIONS"
As usual, the Judges had a tough time deciding wno mould get me awards for "BEST HOME DECORATIONS". Their final conclusions were: 1st Place-Carrell Baker. Hats off to you! 2nd Flace-Strause: -oa:""e'ts, ycur residence was a shining example of the Coming pf EF*5 Christ ."-!.�! 3id Fiace-~,oDert Summers were sorry to say that we did not get a picture of the Summers Residence, but are sure they well deserved the prize, at h Place-><eitr Erickson. you sure must love your pets, because you sure didn't forget them at Christmas! Keith decorated his dog's house very nicely. 5th Place-Donavan Bridges. Donavan'i tractor was decorated with lights, from front to sack anc :t appeared tne mixer was mixing. All of these scenes brought excitement to the children. Tnere were also a few Honorable Mentions: They are pictured or the inside of the paper. There were many more homes that heiped ���� this Christmas Season Merry; and to them, y.e give A Big Thann you. Everyone of vou provided more Joy and Beauty for our Town. Conations for Prizes were given by: welly's Grocery, Tracers State Bank, North Easter1- Montana Insurance Co., rort Peck Merc, Poplar Shopper, Sun Rise Trustworthy �0�� Center ana LOrney �����.

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Contributors

Historical Society of Montana. Microfilm Division.

Contributing Institution

Fort Peck Tribal Library

Geographic Coverage

Poplar (Mont.); Roosevelt County (Mont.)

Digital Collection

Fort Peck Reservation Newspapers

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image/jpeg

Digitization Specifications

Digitization and metadata by The University of Montana Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library. Images scanned by The Crowley Company from microfilm to master TIFF files at 300 PPI, 8 bit grayscale using a Mekel Mark V microfilm scanner. Derivative images created using PhotoShop CS4. OCR was performed with Abbyy FineReader 10 corporate edition.

I096C. 1W 'VN313H
Si.d3�0d N v.z A13I0OS ivoieoisiH iW 6666 3iva dx3
mm................��.....,.................14......IIHIIIIIII...........�...........�..............V"""1
POPLAR SHOPPER
DECEMBER 31, 1987
POST OFFICE BOX 668 POPLAR, MONTANA 59255 PHONE: 768-3433 $8.00 PER YFAR^^^^' ��.....iiniHHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHii......iiiiiiiiiHHHinii.....iiHiiiiiniiiHiiiiiiii.....inni.....nn...:.......�.......ujimmi
BULK RATE
U.b. POSTAGE PERMIT #4
Home Decoration Winners
F/rsf - Darrell Baker
Second - Strauser Residence Third - Robert Summers
Decorations Removed Before Picture Taking Time
io I tv Gr ou
Keith Erickson Dog House
MONTANA'S POPULATION TREND
%4^LE Ir
Years of monitoring Mt. population has led Univ. of Mt. history Professor Harry Fritz to a startling conclusion. He says that despite the decline in its basic industries, western Montana continues to draw an increasing number � of residents. I don't think there's a relationship between a growing economy and a growing population in this state, says Fritz, a Democratic state representative from Missoula. "People are moving to Montana not for the traditional economic reasons." Professor Tom Power, chairman of UM's economics department, agrees with Fritz's assess ment. "I think that's absolutely true" he says, "if one looks at the collapse of Montana's traditional economic base, where we've lost tens of thousands of jobs,...we should have lost 50,000 to 100,000 people. And we didn't." The latest census Bureau figures show that statewide, Montana's population decreased by 7,000 between 1984 and 198* -from 826,000 to 819,000. "It's a little too early to interpret this drop of 7,000" Fritz says. "Rut my guess is it's kind of a in state's "transfer" (non-Jahor) income in the early 1980s. That increase was detected by Professor Power. Transfer income includes social security payments and other retirement benefits, as well as profits from bonds and other investments. Power found that in 1986, transfer funds accounted for $3 out of every $8 in personal income in Mt.
logging." "We've got a good educational system, which I think with minimum effort could attract out-of-state students into Montana" he says. "There are things you con get here that you can't find elsewhere."
Just as census figures don't clarify who's mov ing to Montana, neither do they show why people come here. Fritz suggests scenic beauty, a low crime rate, and educational and recreational opportunities. Another likely reason is the residential privacy Montana's wide-open spaces afford. He dismisses the state's low individual taxes as a motive. Fritz says that to promote economic growth in the Treasure State, Montanons must analyze the reasons people have moved here during the past 15 years. Counting on traditional resource-based industries to rebo-
und may not be enough, he says. He disagrees with people who think that Montana's traditional industries would recover if they were less burdened by taxes, bureaucratic regulations and environmental restrictions. "Copper mines have closed all over the American West" Fritz says. "Butte is jiot some singular, unique, Montana example of something we can turn a-around. ! think you need a realization on the part of the state officials that they're going to have to try something else besides rejuvenating mining and logging."
OIL REFUNDS
$80 MILLION AVAILABLE FOR OIL OVERCHARGE REFUNDS
Farmers, businessmen, government officials, school officials and other individuals who may have used large quantities of refined petroleum products may be sent a refund by the Federal Government if they sumbit a refund application by June 30, 1988.
U.S. consumers were overcharged for refined petroleum products, including propane, gasoline, diesel fuel and asphalt products from 1973 to 1981. A court settlement with the oil companies that overcharged consumers provided $80 million dollars to the U.S. Department of Energy to refund those consumers that were directly impacted by these oil overcharges. It is probably not worth applying for a refund if you're an average home owner. Only petroleum product use-age is eligible for the refund-natural gas and electricity don't apply. The refund rate is $8.00 per 10,000 gallons of petroleum products consumer during the 7.5 year period from 1973-1981. The Federal Government will not process a check for less than $15 which means the business or individual must have used almost 20,000 gallons of fuel during the seven year period to get a $15 refund.
It is'best if you use records to develop the information required for the refund application form, however, much of the information that farmers would need to complete the form has been lost or destroyed. If this is the case farmers can use a simplified formula to calculate the gallons of petroleum used during the 7.5 year period. The formula is: 23.8 gallons of fuel per acre times the total number of acres you farm times 7.5 years. Cropland, hayland and rangeland qualify, however, if rangeland and hayland are included in the total number of acres your farm, you may want to adjust the 23.8 gallons per acre to a lower figure. The 23.8 gallons peracre figure was developed from a study made in Iowa. Farmers also do not want to forget the propane or heating oil they used to heat their homes. Schools, hospitals, city and county government may be prime beneficiaries of the refund, if heating was done with a petroleum product or a large fleet of trucks, bus, etc. were operated or asphalt paving done during the time period, it rroy pay to make an application for the refund. A one page application form is available at your nearest MSU Extension Service Office or at the Energy Information Centers located in the County Building at Culbertson and the Library at Wolf Point. All applications must be submitted to the U.S. Department of Energy by June 30, 1988. The applications were originally due on December 31, 1987, however, Mike Vogel, MSU Housing and Home Energy Specialist, said that the time alotted by the Energy Department for consumers to file .efund applications was too short and the Department of Energy has extended the time for applications. "The refunds will still be issued on a first come, first serve basis, so when the money runs out, later applications will not be honored, " said Vogel. Vogel's advice is, "Don't wait until the week before the deadline to get your refund application in. You may not get your refund."
Donovan Bridges Tractor
"JUDGES DECISIONS"
As usual, the Judges had a tough time deciding wno mould get me awards for "BEST HOME DECORATIONS". Their final conclusions were: 1st Place-Carrell Baker. Hats off to you! 2nd Flace-Strause: -oa:""e'ts, ycur residence was a shining example of the Coming pf EF*5 Christ ."-!.�! 3id Fiace-~,oDert Summers were sorry to say that we did not get a picture of the Summers Residence, but are sure they well deserved the prize, at h Place->